Occupational Therapist

Overview

COMING SOON: Fallon Health Opens New Summit Eldercare Site in Dartmouth!!

About us:

Fallon Health is a company that cares. We prioritize our members--always-making sure they get the care they need and deserve. Founded in 1977 in Worcester, Massachusetts, we deliver equitable, high-quality coordinated care and are continually rated among the nation's top health plans for member experience, service, and clinical quality.

Fallon Health's Summit ElderCare is a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly-PACE for short. PACE, an alternative to nursing home care, is a program that helps people 55 and older continue living safely at home. At Fallon Health, we believe our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and unique capabilities allow us to better serve our members. We embrace and encourage differences in age, race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and other characteristics that make people unique.

Today, guided by our mission of improving health and inspiring hope, we strive to be the leading provider of government-sponsored health insurance programs-including Medicare, Medicaid, and PACE- in the region.

Why should I consider a Occupational Therapist opportunity in a PACE program at Summit?

• Great Pay!

• Great Benefits - including very affordable Health Insurance!

• 23 days of PTO - and - an additional 12 Holidays

• Monday to Friday from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

• No Holidays!

• Some wonderful relationships established with the member participants you care for!

• Manage a caseload of participants in collaboration with your team which includes a provider and primary care nurse.

• Assessments completed only semi-annually or for a significant change

• And many, many more!

Responsibilities

• Assures that all occupational therapy assessments are completed and documented in a timely manner.

• Works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team (IDT), participants and caregivers to meet participants' occupational therapy needs.

• Participates in daily IDT meetings and care planning meetings as scheduled.

• Assures that problems, goals and interventions related to occupational therapy are documented in the participant's record, communicated in a timely manner and evaluated at appropriate intervals.

• Completes home safety evaluations as assigned in a timely manner; recommends changes in participants' living environments consistent with their needs and capabilities, including any need for in-home equipment; collaborates with IDT members to assure needs are met.

• Provides treatment to participants in their home setting as needed.

• Recommends, creates or obtains individualized supplies such as splints, braces or other adaptive equipment.

• Assists participants to improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination and perceptual skills as indicated in assessments.

• Provide education to participants and caregivers to allow them to carry out therapeutic activities at home when indicated.

• Collaborates with the Activities Coordinator to select programs and activities that are consistent with therapeutic goals.

• Participates in rehabilitation services related data collection and quality surveillance as required.

• Documents all direct care encounters in the participants' record to facilitate submission of claims and diagnostic data to FCHP systems.

• Attends regular staff meetings and other meetings as assigned.

• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education: Graduate of an accredited rehabilitation program in occupational therapy.

Licenses/Certifications: Licensed as an occupational therapist in Massachuse